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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hornsey 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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2) Diphtheria Notifications and Deaths in relation to Immunisation
NOTIFICATIONS
DEATHS
Age at date
of
notification
No. of cases
notified
No. of cases in
preceding column
in which children
had completed
full course
of immunisation
Under 1
0
0
1
2
2
2
1
0
3
0
0
NIL
4
1
0
5-9
1
1
10-14
4
2
TOTALS
9
5
INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED
Scarlet Fever 138
Diphtheria 18
Pneumonia. 56
Erysipelas 22
Puerperal pyrexia 23
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 3
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 10
Dysentery 21
Measles 497
Whoopinr Cough 167
Malaria (centreted abroad) 3
Folio-myelitis 2
965
Admitted to Joint Isolation Hospital 200
Admitted to other hospitals 35
Nursed at home 730
965
17